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Show EscqlantQ UtJH By Marlene Haws 826-4859 The holiday season is coming upon us faster than we care to admit to. How many of you have your Christmas shopping done or even started? Well, it's later than you think! Brent and Kathy Griffin hope to be moved into their new house in time for Christmas. . Louie and Janalee Bernardo have out in the lane, south of town and across the wash. A holiday gift and craft fair was held in the old high school's home ec. room last Saturday and Donnie Randall had her Avon open house with Christmas gift ideas last Friday. Dixie Mitchell, Derlynne Brooks, Gloria Gracie, Tenisa Quilter and Bonnie Liles went to Provo where they met Janet Flo-res Flo-res and Lonnie Cruz of Sandy and Tracie Robison of Ely, Nev. for a sisters and daughters reunion for a day. They ate at Chuck-a-rama and got a good start on their Christmas shopping Geraldine Liston got a telephone tele-phone call from Alan (Joe) and Deanna Worthen, Payson. Alan and Geraldine share a common birthday and she said he wasn't too excited about being the age he just turned. I won't say how old he turned, but I don't think 60 is too bad, do you? That isn't nearly as old as it used to be! Lavern Griffin just had his 80th birthday. Mary says they celebrated all that week with . Sheri Woolsey, Judy Brooks and the doctors at the clinic. My Gosh, Lavern, we didn't want you to fall all apart just because you had a birthday! You get well now and have a good winter. Remember Remem-ber you are 80 years young! Congratulations! Con-gratulations! Danny Meisenbach and his brother-in-law, Steve Seymore, came from Orange, Calif, for the black powder and duck hunt. They stayed at the home of Lane and Geraldine Liston. They lucked out on the weather. It turned nasty right after they went home. It was Escalante day at the Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch last Friday. Marlene and Klyn Haws were there to see about Klyn's knee problems; Mel and Vaunie Richins were there to have Mel's hand checked out since his surgery; Bill and Bev Kuhns were there to get something some-thing done for Bill's back; Larry and Ruth Christensen were there to see what could be done for Ruth's bad knee and Butch and Sherry Bacon and son were there to have Butch's bad shoulder checked out since he had surgery on it. The Bacons were going on to Las Vegas, Nev. for a day or two and had tickets to see Vince Gill perform. (See ESCALANTE on page 3-A) Escalante News From Page 2-A Velma Boulter went to the home of niece Vergeania Davenport Daven-port in Summit where she met her daughter, Sondra Boulter and Sondra's son and his wife; Robert and Miriam Lund, from Lehi and Salt Lake City. From there, they went on to Mesquite, Nev. where they met Gary Lund, who is stationed sta-tioned overseas and made a side trip to see them while he was in the states. Deon and Arnold Alvey went to Cedar City and St. George where Deon had meetings. Their kids and grandkids, the family of Dave and Raylene Whitfield of Las Vegas, met them in St. George then came on home with them for the weekend. Clorene Vidrine went to St. George to stay with her granddaughter, grand-daughter, Machelle, while her mother, Annette, went to Mexico. Lenza Wilson was stung by a bee and had a sore arm. Don't know if that interfered with the ceremony when he was sworn in as mayor or not. Maybe it was the arm he didn't have to hold up while he was swearing! Ike Sevy went to Salt Lake City to see family members. Kathy Mclnelly and son, Jeremy, Jer-emy, went to Texas to see friends Jeremy made while on his mission. mis-sion. After they got back, Kathy went to Salt Lake City for foot surgery. Ty Sandefer had more surgery on his arm this week. The doctors were doing a bone graft. Hope this will be the last surgery and that arm will begin to heal now. |